Rounding Up Great Books
to Read Aloud to Your Kids
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Rainbow Fish by Marc Pfister
The Napping House by Audrey Wood
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad by Judith Viorst
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Wump World by Bill Peet
Strega Nona by Tomie de Paola
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Tony’s Bread by Tomie de Paola
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? by Bill Martin
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard Atwater
Chocolate Fever by Robert Kimmel Smith
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
The True Story of Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
Curious George by H. A. Ray
Hooray for Diffendoofer Day by Dr. Seuss and Jack Prelutsky
When I Get Bigger by Mercer Mayer
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Hailstones and Halibut Bones by Mary O’Neill
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
The Old Man and His Door by Gary Soto
The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco
